Evan J. Criddle
Assistant Professor of Law
College of Law
Syracuse University
Biography:
B.A., Brigham Young University
J.D., Yale Law School
Professor Criddle teaches and writes in the fields of public international law, administrative law, and civil procedure. His research explores the relationship between legal and political theory in shaping state sovereignty, human rights, and administrative discretion. Professor Criddle’s publications have appeared in a variety of law reviews, including the Boston University Law Review, Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Yale Journal of International Law, and Yale Law Journal.
Professor Criddle received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. He clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty, he spent several years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York, handling trial and appellate litigation for foreign sovereigns, multinational corporations, and political refugees. Professor Criddle currently serves as a faculty affiliate with the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism and has been awarded a research grant from the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (with Evan Fox-Decent and Malcolm Thorburn).
Publications:
SSRN Author Page Fiduciary Administration: Rethinking Popular Representation in Agency Rulemaking, 88 Tex. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009)
Deriving Peremptory Norms from Sovereignty, 103 Am. Soc’y Int’l L. Proc. (forthcoming 2009) (with Evan Fox-Decent)
A Fiduciary Theory of Jus Cogens, 34 Yale J. Int’l L. (forthcoming 2009) (with Evan Fox-Decent)
Chevron’s Consensus, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 1271 (2008)
Fiduciary Foundations of Administrative Law, 54 UCLA L. Rev.117 (2006)
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in U.S. Treaty Interpretation, 44 Va. J. Int’l L.
431 (2004)
Chevron Deference and Treaty Interpretation, 112 Yale L.J. 1927 (2003)
Review of Susan Marks, The Riddle of All Constitutions: International Law, Democracy,
and the Critique of Ideology (2000), 26 Yale J. Int’l
L. 882 (2001)